{"id":22736,"date":"2015-09-19T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=22736"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:46:11","slug":"an-update-of-briefness-about-i-where-i-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/19\/an-update-of-briefness-about-i-where-i-be\/","title":{"rendered":"An update of briefness about I where I be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alive, I be. (There has to be the tradiotional\u00a0International Talk Like A Pirate Day reference somewhere after all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Life has been busy &#8211; with not a huge amount to discuss. Currently I am:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>working on the website of the school I work in. That began as a lick of paint but ended up as a demolish and rebuild job. The last few roof tiles are being prepared for adding and it should be complete soon.<\/li>\n<li>drumming more \u00a0due to the sad passing of the long-serving kit player at Grange Moor <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Brass band\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brass_band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Brass Band<\/a>. This is having the effect of making me enjoy being at band a lot more as I&#8217;m learning a lot about my woeful kit playing &#8211; it is also having the positive effect of improving my woeful kit playing&#8230; my shoulder is hurting more than ever though. I also recently had to turn down the offer of playing with a band at the National Brass Band Championships due to lack of time to rehearse. It&#8217;s nice to be wanted!<\/li>\n<li>waiting anxiously for the next episode of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Doctor Who\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Doctor Who<\/a> Series 9 with Peter Capaldi &#8211; tonight&#8217;s opening offering was a slice of sheer delight which I thoroughly enjoyed.<\/li>\n<li>at the beginning of another different job role in school, and which I am really quite liking at the moment, since I could help students improve their learning and using their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subconsciousmindpowertechniques.com\/\">mind power<\/a> for this.<\/li>\n<li>getting rather annoyed at the lack of extra time in my life for the things I like to do, such as geocaching, blogging and general geekiness.<\/li>\n<li>looking forward to seeing what happens in tomorrow&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Singapore\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=1.28333333333,103.833333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=1.28333333333,103.833333333 (Singapore)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Singapore<\/a> Grand Prix after qualifying put together a different looking grid for this, otherwise rather predictable, season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I shall leave you, for now with two things. The promise that I will endeavour to get writing more. The current job role\u00a0really does lend itself to regular blogging and I must do that. The second thing is this rather lovely link to a slightly transfixing animation by the wonderful Matt Henderson. The image links to the original blog post of his about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.matthen.com\/post\/128409945246\/in-mc-eschers-metamorphose-he-transforms-square\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22737\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/matthen\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matthen.gif?fit=360%2C262&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"360,262\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Matthen\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matthen.gif?fit=360%2C262&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22737\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Matthen.gif?resize=360%2C262\" alt=\"Matthen\" width=\"360\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-22736\" data-postid=\"22736\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-22736 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alive, I be. 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